Insights from the PHIN website: boosting industry transparency
Alistair Moses, communications manager at the Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN), looks at how the PHIN website is providing a clearer picture of the...
Quality & safety: a time of transition
This year is set to usher in a major reorganisation of how safety and quality in healthcare are reported, learned from and managed. IHPN...
What’s in store for independent healthcare in 2023?
Despite the economic and political upheavals of 2022, IHPN’s Annual Industry Barometer showed its members remain positive about the prospects for independent healthcare
2022 proved...
IHPN annual summit 2022
IHPN’s first in-person Summit since 2019 featured an impressive line-up of speakers at a time when independent healthcare could play a bigger role in...
The state of the independent healthcare sector
IHPN director of policy and delivery David Furness looks at how a turbulent few weeks in politics and an equally stormy economy might shape...
Moving the MPAF with the times
IHPN CEO David Hare talks about the rationale behind the updated Medical Practitioners Assurance Framework and the key changes for practitioners and providers
2019 seems...
Refreshing the debate on patient choice
IHPN is calling for an overhaul of the patient choice initiative as new research shows NHS patients would travel to cut wait times
Healthcare trends...
Behind the headlines: what’s really happening with elective recovery?
The NHS is using less independent sector capacity than it was pre-pandemic despite burgeoning waiting lists and pledges to involve it in elective recovery....
The changing healthcare regulation landscape
IHPN CEO David Hare reports from the first joint patient safety conference held by the independent sector in conjunction with the CQC
The healthcare world is...
Changing the face of the NHS landscape
IHPN CEO David Hare looks at what the Health and Care Bill will mean for the independent healthcare sector
With the biggest global pandemic in...